Every year more than 10 million vehicles reach the end of their useful life in the European Union and generate more than 9 million tons of waste. The European Union issued the directive 2000/53/EC in 2000 aimed at reducing pollution and waste of resources generated by such a huge amount of end of life vehicles (EL V s). Car manufacturers and the other EL V s economic operators actually are working together in order to fulfil EU EL V s directive targets but meeting EU standards will become more difficult in the near future also due to reducing the overall vehicle weight by increased use of polymer. The EU-sponsored CONCLORE project (CONCLORE-STRP-013871) described in the present paper aims to develop a sustainable low emission system to manufacture a 100%-recyclable single component car interior product. The present paper puts forward the concept of Controlled Closed-Loop Recycling, which connects primary forward supply chain management with reverse supply chain management and is the cornerstone of the methodology for automotive dump reduction.
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